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Who is allowed to transfer a repo ownership

I created a repo for an organization, not for me. When creating the repo I put the email (or the github handle, I dont remember now) of my boss.

Now I am being asked to transfer the ownership of the repo, and I get an error

You can only transfer a repository from an organization to yourself at this time

What does this mean?

Thank you

To clarify, I created this repo with an email that is not from the company, so I am an "Outside collaborator".

Can I transfer a repo I created for an organization, being that I am an outside collaborator?

Solution

  • I had the same issue and managed to solve it by doing 2 transfers:

    1. I transferred it to my personal github
    2. From there I transferred it to where I wanted originally

    for some reason this works, but transferring directly not